'Mcfbi': The New Way to Stop Gangsters; Head of New Anti-Crime 'Superagency' Pledges to Pursue Scotland's Criminal Bosses

Sunday HeraldMay 25, 2004

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GRAEME Pearson can rightly be described as Scotland's number one crusader against crime. At the moment, he's the biggest scourge of drug dealers in Scotland, but he is soon to move beyond hunting the Mr Bigs behind the heroin and crack rackets and take on every gangster in the entire country.

Pearson has only been the director of the Scottish Drugs Enforcement Agency (SDEA), which tackles the most powerful drug dealers in the nation, for three months. However, he will soon head up the Scottish Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SSOCA), an organisation that has already been nicknamed the McFBI.

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'Mcfbi': The New Way to Stop Gangsters; Head of New Anti-Crime 'Superagency' Pledges to Pursue Scotland's Criminal Bosses

SSOCA will become the most powerful crime-fighting agency that Scotland has ever seen. It will have counterparts in England and Northern Ireland. Pearson said these three agencies will be "a UK plc battleship that protects us from transnational crime".

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